Ole, Issue 5 (Harold Norse Special Issue), 1966

Burroughs contributes an untitled piece on the drawings of Harold Norse, p. 48.

Published in Bensenville, IL. by Open Skull Press in 1966.

This copy is signed by Harold Norse to Judith Malina and Julian Beck of The Living Theater: “For Judith and Julian ‘to make good more interesting than evil’. I’m with you all the way, Love, Harold”.

This copy was acquired from Boo-Hooray (New York City).

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C147
• Shoaf III.92
• Schottlaender v4.C145
• Raven 19660000OLEX.0.5, b15

Selected Contents:

• Charles Bukowski: "The Old Pro" (poetry)
• Harold Norse:
• "now" (poetry)
• "restaurant" (poetry)
• "a question of identity" (poetry)
• "paris" (poetry)
• "For the Jewish St. Teresa of Avila" (poetry)
• "believing in the absurd" (poetry)
• "i arrive in malaga" (poetry)
• "zombie fix" (poetry)
• "it is" (poetry)
• "dust poem" (poetry)
• "greek customs" (poetry)
• "el amor brujo" (poetry)
• "florence/brooklyn/the world" (poetry)
• "scenario for the anti-hero" (poetry)
• "green ballet" (poetry)
• "piccolo paradiso" (poetry)
• "behind the glass wall" (poetry)
• "showdown" (poetry)
• "morning vision" (poetry)
• "William Carlos Williams" (poetry)
• "gone gone gone" (poetry)
• "the words you can taste a whole lifetime" (poetry)
• "why i am a poet" (poetry)
• "follow no leader" (poetry)
• "kali yug" (poetry)
• "inscrutable as a croupier" (poetry)
• "fire over silence" (poetry)
• arrested in new york" (poetry)
• "crab cycle dooms" (poetry)
• "americans" (poetry)
• "dirty words" (poetry)
• "one of those mornings" (poetry)
• "between two fires" (poetry)
• "anthropology lesson" (poetry)
• James Baldwin: "The Poet in Exile" (essay)
• Daniel Richter: on Harold Norse (essay)
• Thomas M. Livingston: "The Experimentor" (essay)
• Nanos Valaoritis: "A Visceral Readers' Indigest of the Gun Age Ghost Poet Harold Norse/ or George Raaft in a Manichean Garage" (essay)
• John Raymond: from The New York Times (essay)
• Anaïs Nin: inscription to Harold Norse
• Paul Carroll: on Harold Norse
• William S. Burroughs: on Harold Norse
• John Wilcock: on Harold Norse
• Tom McNamara: on Harold Norse
• Jack Hirschman: on Harold Norse
• Norman Thomas: "Harold Norse on the Island of Hydra" (essay)
• William Carlos Williams: "Excerpts from letters of William Carlos Williams to Harold Norse" (letters)
• Charles Henri Ford: back cover collage

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Douglas Blasek